Writing Workshop with Fran Bourassa
Calling all poets, writers, and would-be writers of all ages and experience levels! Bypass your inner “editor” to find your authentic voice. Practice “free writing” short pieces from “word whip” prompts that elicit memories, emotions, and powerful ideas for poetry and stories. This method is quick, powerful, and everyone can enjoy it.
Fran Bourassa is an award-winning poet and contributing writer to numerous anthologies, including Breaking the Surface, Pacific Poetry Anthology, Force Field: 77 BC Poets.
Free but space is limited (in person only).
Registration opens on the 1st of the month.
Come join our discussion of Mel Robbins’ latest book The Let Them Theory.
What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words?
If you’ve ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn’t you. The problem is the power you give to other people. Two simple words—Let Them—may have the power to set you free. Free from the opinions, drama, and judgments of others. Free from the exhausting cycle of trying to manage everything and everyone around you. The Let Them Theory puts the power to create a life you love back in your hands—and this book will show you exactly how to do it.
All are welcome (even if you haven’t read the book!). Register online or call the Library.
Join us for an evening practicing active listening with Maria Hampvent.
Active listening is a skill that supports belonging, understanding, empathy and compassion. It is used to describe a type of engagement with another person that improves their experience of feeling understood and heard.
It’s in response to other types of listening- many of us listen for a pause to insert our own thoughts, experiences or opinions.
In leadership spaces, active listening is rapidly becoming an important and valuable skill to acquire, hone and increase. A leader’s active listening capacity is becoming regarded as a key indicator for promotion and success, because it has been linked to the soft skills, like emotional intelligence, that grow a team’s trust.
Join us this poetry month as Sheila Weaver reads from her latest book Taste of a Raindrop and other Haikus of the West Coast.
Sheila describes her work, “Like a snapshot, a haiku can capture an image or a moment in just a few well-chosen words. Come along as my miniature poems speak of the beauty and wisdom of Nature that continued to unfold around us through Covid-19, as it has done for millennia.”
Delicate drawings add to this slim volume for lovers of nature and art.
Sheila draws her inspiration largely from the land, the non-human world that surrounds and sustains us. How we perceive and relate to it, and the possibilities that open up as we learn, little by little, how to live in true community with all beings with whom we share this planet.
Join us for an evening of music as local musician Bradley Wells treats us to an exquisite hour of Spanish-influenced flamenco and classical guitar music.
Growing up between the East and West Coasts of Canada, Bradley Wells is a creative human with a great curiosity and passion for life. It wasn’t until he was 19 that he bought his friend’s beat-up electric guitar and discovered his love for making music. As years went by, he found himself drawn to classical guitar and flamenco music. He recently completed a mentorship studying advanced Flamenco techniques under renowned musician Amir John Haddad. Committed to continuous personal and professional development, his goal is to continue to uplift spirits and contribute to building peaceful, creative atmospheres with his music and creations.
Thursdays to July 1st. Do you need assistance with your device or laptop in :
*using your smartphone or e-reader
*accessing email
*surfing the internet
*posting to social media or other basic technology help…
Call the library to make a 30 minute appointment.
A star is reborn. With an outsize stage presence that eclipsed R&B greats like Etta James and Little Richard, Black trans soul singer Jackie Shane was the real deal.
In an era when voices like hers were silenced and marginalized, Jackie blazed an incandescent trail from her native Nashville to the top of the charts in 1960s Toronto, where she ruled the nightclub scene. With few recordings of her legendary performances, this film brings Jackie to life in her own words through never-before-heard phone conversations, dazzling rotoscope animation and a newly released song, part of an incredible soundtrack that seals Jackie’s place as one of the greatest soul performers of the 20th century.
Tuesdays to July 1st. Do you enjoy knitting and/or crocheting with others, and making useful items from donated yarn for local charities? Drop in to our weekly knitting group on Tuesday mornings. Knitters from beginners to experts are welcome.
Host: Lynne Dyment
Limited to 12 in-person participants, first-come first served.
